{"id":5654,"date":"2011-04-05T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:33:27","slug":"day-262-circumnavigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/expedition-updates\/day-262-circumnavigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 262: Circumnavigation for the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 262: Circumnavigation<\/p>\n

High point: Hitting our second antipode which means we\u2019re even closer to completing full global circumnavigation, oh yeah!<\/p>\n

Low point: Waking up freezing and convinced our tent was going to blow away in the gale force winds<\/p>\n

No point: Why do Mehul and Steve keep speaking to the bewildered locals in French?\u00a0 Who is Delboy and who is Rodders?\u00a0 \u201cMange tout Rodney, mange tout\u201d.<\/p>\n

Quote of the day: \u2018Merci beacoup\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of camping but my four seasons sleeping bag just doesn\u2019t cut the mustard, on top of that the wind howling all night and rattling the tent didn\u2019t make for the best sleep I ever had, but I mustn\u2019t grumble.<\/p>\n

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Today was a big mileage day and a huge milestone for FTFE!\u00a0 We had to find the antipode, which is a big tick on the road to full circumnavigation. Norris McWhirter (founder of Guinness World Records) and Sir Francis Chichester had the foresight early on to recognize that the cleanest and most efficient way to measure a circumnavigation by any means of propulsion was for the track to pass through at least one pair of antipodal points; two places on the surface of the globe that are diametrically opposite to each other.\u00a0 We hit our first antipode in Auckland, New Zealand at Mount Eden but our second antipode was going to be a bit more tricky to find…<\/p>\n

The antipode was actually on a farmer\u2019s land in the middle of the beautiful Spanish rolling countryside.\u00a0 As the roads to get there got narrower and narrower, the feeling we were being watched increased with every mile off road we took.\u00a0 Eventually reaching the dirt track on which we were to find our special co-ordinates, we felt we could be chased off by a disgruntled farmer with a gun at any moment (not that we\u2019re paranoid or anything).\u00a0 Once on the track the exact co-ordinates took a bit of finding, there was a lot of shouting out numbers while James walked slowly in circles doing a chicken impression (I\u2019m not sure how this helped) while holding the sat nav to make sure we got the exact co-ordinates 36.87806725151357, -5.23553654551506.\u00a0 After a short ceremony involving the FTFE flag, much hand shaking and high fives it was time to hit the road again.\u00a0 When I say road, we weren\u2019t expecting whole chunks of our route to be missing, as though they\u2019d been bitten off by a huge tarmac munching monster, it made the drive a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n

Antipodes tick, distance tick, equators tick.\u00a0 So as long as we make it back to Greenwich on Sunday in one piece, we\u2019ve got full circumnavigation in the bag, HUGE!<\/p>\n

After another long day we finally we got to El Chappoael to meet new crew member Matt Haynes at 1am in the morning.\u00a0 Early start tomorrow to meet the Mayor of Torreveija, welcome to FTFE Matt!<\/p>\n

Amy<\/p>\n

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Day 262: Circumnavigation High point: Hitting our second antipode which means we\u2019re even closer to completing full global circumnavigation, oh yeah! Low point: Waking up freezing and convinced our tent was going to blow away in the gale force winds No point: Why do Mehul and Steve keep speaking to the bewildered locals in French?\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expedition-updates","category-stage-9-valencia-to-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}